arXiv:2606.24510cs.AIcs.CL2026-06

专为罕见病诊断设计的智能模型,显著提升医生确诊速度与准确率。

A specialized reasoning large language model for accelerating rare disease diagnosis: a randomized AI physician assistance trial

  • 基于真实与合成病例训练的32B参数推理模型,聚焦罕见病诊断。
  • 在4个外部中心验证中,提前1.87个月发现最终诊断,准确率提升21.44个百分点。
  • 适合临床辅助诊断场景,尤其适用于数据稀缺的罕见病研究。

罕见病影响全球数百万人,但及时诊断仍是重大公共卫生挑战,源于专业临床资源匮乏。现有大语言模型受限于临床可用性差、证据支撑不足及训练数据稀缺。本文提出开源轻量级推理模型RaDaR(32B参数),基于49,170条公开文本病例与104,666条增强推理的合成病例训练。在多个公开基准和四个外部验证中心中,RaDaR表现优于包括671B参数的DeepSeek-R1在内的开源模型。回顾性队列分析显示,其在61.06%病例中先于临床怀疑给出最终诊断,平均提前1.87个月,占中心内诊断间隔的50.18%。随机医师辅助试验表明,使用RaDaR可使医生诊断准确率比仅用互联网搜索提升21.44个百分点。合成数据消融实验表明,以表型锚定的叙事数据对长尾罕见病具有有效训练信号,且在测试范围内呈单调增长趋势。综上,RaDaR及其开发与验证框架为数据稀缺下的诊断AI提供了可部署模型与可复现开发范式。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Rare diseases affect millions of individuals worldwide, yet timely diagnosis remains a major public health challenge due to scarcity of specialized clinical expertise. While large language models (LLMs) show promise to support rare disease diagnosis, current models are constrained by insufficient clinical deployability, limited clinically grounded evidence, and scarcity of training data. Here we present RaDaR (Rare Disease navigatoR), an open-source, compact reasoning LLM (32B parameters) for rare disease diagnosis. RaDaR was trained with 49,170 publicly available free-text cases and 104,666 synthetic cases with reasoning-enhanced training. RaDaR showed the strongest performance among evaluated open-source models, including the 671B DeepSeek-R1, across public benchmarks and four external validation centers. In a retrospective cohort, RaDaR prioritized the final diagnosis before documented clinical suspicion in 61.06 percent of cases, corresponding to a potential lead time of 1.87 months and 50.18 percent of the within-center interval. In a randomized physician-assistance trial, RaDaR assistance improved physicians' rare-disease diagnostic accuracy by 21.44 percentage points compared with internet search alone. Synthetic-data ablations suggested that phenotype-anchored narratives provide useful training signal for long-tail rare diseases, with a monotonic scaling trend within the tested data range. Together, RaDaR and its development and validation framework provide a deployable rare-disease reasoning model and a reproducible development framework for diagnostic AI under data scarcity.

罕见病诊断辅助大模型临床应用

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